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Ah well. Never looked like getting anything from the game. Outplayed for the entire match and didn't have a shot on goal. We defended a bit better with the three in the second half, but the midfield and front two didn't get on it enough or create anything. I thought Nilsen was fine in the second. I'm not at all convinced by Geiger yet, hopefully he has more to give. Expect another easy defeat midweek before the important cup game. We've just not got a great team at the moment, I wouldn't single out anyone as being particularly terrible (okay, Morrison, but he's a young lad!), just that we don't sum up to a good side.

Devlin's been red carded before for doing what the Hearts player did there.

Back three now perhaps?

Some wild subs their. I'm guessing Shinnie on the yellow is the issue, and the games upcoming. A real concern that the other two did nothing in the first half though.

I'd rather blame those that signed him to be honest. He's a young lad that will make mistakes, and we're playing him on his wrong side, despite it being very fucking obvious that he couldn't play on his left (look at the shape of his body diving in). I've no idea who suggested he'd be getting into Clarke's world cup plans, but they clearly hadn't watched him! A bit like our scouts.

Looks to me like Geiger and Cameron are doing nothing to come and collect the ball. Especially Geiger. Be interested to hear the opinions of someone at the game, as it's difficult to tell on the telly.

We haven't been bad, we've just been below average all over the park. We've been a nothing team for 45 minutes. Have we had a shot on target yet? Our midfield aren't good enough to get us a goal or cover the defence.

He's an inexperienced young lad playing on his wrong foot. Ifil and Stewart were "seasoned pros". It's not Morrison's fault he was signed, or is being picked. It was fairly clear that we needed an experienced player to play alongside Milne, and we got that in McIntyre I suppose, and Morrison shouldn't have been signed. Nilsen would have been fine in any of the games where we've played Morrison, and then Molloy for the period until McIntyre returned. To be honest, we still have a real issue when Knoester is fit. I like him, but I'm still not convinced he really suits the league. He's good on the ball, and good positionally, but he's not brilliant in the air and often lets his man run away from him. Not the sort of guy we really need alongside a young player that we want to see improve. For this game, we should have opted for a back three in my opinion.

Our midfield are getting totally overrun. It appears to be Shinnie on his own.

That's quite a miss fae them. No replays on my stream, but assume it was Morrison wrong side?

Could be. Could just be a case of not wanting to overplay him too. He can be a bit suspect back the way too, so maybe a mixture of a few things in a difficult game.

Aye, it's not xenophobia to want a Scottish core in a sport defined by its national boundaries. It is xenophobic to suggest that there's something intrinsically wrong with foreigners, or their abilities, or "passion" or whatever else because of their foreignness, but that's very clearly not what you're saying. I liked the fact that the three foreigner rule was always referred to as such, and not the eight players from country of origin rule or some pish, for fear of offending. I'd like to see it reinstated, but perhaps with loyalty rewards for players who remain with a team for more than three seasons, who drop into the nae foreigner category. Obviously, foreigners through the youths is also acceptable. Edit: I should add that I don't think that the foreigner rule should apply to management. Not for any particular reason that I can articulate though.

That defence is very suspect. Hopefully Milne is playing on his wrong side, as Morrison is horrendous on his wrong foot. Similar to Dorrington, where we signed a guy who can apparently play left and right, but clearly hasn't done so in any environment where they might be under pressure. Body shape all over the shop, and just a general mess. Molloy is a better centre half than Morrison in general, he's definitely a mile better on his left side. I'd have had him alongside Milne with either Frame or Jensen at left back (even Jensen on his wrong foot is a large upgrade). Anyway, I'm not expecting much, so hopefully they'll pull something out of nowhere.

Armstrong is only suitable against teams like Livingston if he's playing number 8. He basically needs to be where Cameron is or not playing. There's probably a way to fit him into one of the wide roles if we're playing a back four. Probably best off the bench at the moment though.

Excellent use of an existing thread. Congratulations. Although it possibly all sits within the politics thread, or even a local council thread, but we can't have everything. What are your actual thoughts on this hydrogen bus thing? Seems to me a case of them getting out while they can. Hydrogen for buses probably seemed like a reasonable bet at the time, despite the obvious issues. Where do you think the farce lies?

Did you? Maybe it was the telly that made it look that way, but I was certain it was a back three. Molloy doesn't exactly get forward so maybe it was that, but I also thought Bilalovic did a lot of work back the way, which he wouldn't normally do, and Olusanya played narrow with Devlin nearly always on the touchline. Nilsen seemed very central too, because I remember thinking how fortunate it was that he didn't have to take it on his left very often. It was a shite stream though!

He looks like his morning ritual is cracking one out in a layby.

Between him, Farage, Starmer, Swinney and Badenoch, I think the creepometer would barely move.

That's a fucked up story.

It'll be interesting to see if we play a back three again. Very few complaints about it last night, and I think it suits us in many games. In fact, I suspect we might have switched to it last night with the next two in mind. I thought Nilsen was fine in the middle of the two actual centre halves too, and I'm not convinced that any combination of two of the three that finished is good enough as a two. With five days to recover, we should be fine, however the lack of subs last night was baffling. This seems to have changed since Doc came on board and is reminiscent of the McInnes days. Soldiering on with players who are clearly knackered, making mistakes, and just riding your luck as to whether you get punished or not. Bilalovic, Geiger and Devlin could all have been given a break last night.

Well that was a very bad game of fitba. A point definitely fair, with neither team showing any skill or creativity whatsoever. I can't believe we're banning plastic pitches when grass pitches are often like this for months of the year. It'll be a good three months before that pitch is suitable for football. Anyway, thought Molloy and Shinnie played well, and Nilsen was decent when he came on too. Everyone else was average, but they all seemed to work very hard.

Not good either, but aye, not terrible. Midfield looks okay, defence been okay. Olusanya not a footballer, and Bilalovic not up to much either. Cameron been a bit nothing.

Was that McIntyre that went off for Nilsen? The camera stayed on their box the entire time the sub was being made for some bizarre reason.

Cheers. Seems to be working well. It's like watching a game from the nineties on youtube, but significantly better than the skipping pish elsewhere.

Not a great start on the fawa stream. Fuck sake!